Well, well, what have we here? Yet another entrant into the decidedly oversaturated
netbook market, that's what. While waltzing through OCZ Technology's
CeBIT booth today, we happened upon the company's very first netbook: Neutrino. After chuckling for a few at the empty Beck's bottle beside it (hey, we're in Germany!), we scoped out the specs (and chatted with an on-hand rep) and found that it will be shipping Stateside within nine or so weeks in two variations. The first is a "DIY" model, which will be "priced competitively" compared to similar sized netbooks and enable buyers to select their own RAM, HDD, etc; the alternative is an
OCZ'd-out edition, which will cater to high-end users who won't mind the undisclosed price premium. The 10.1-inch machine will come loaded with a 1.6GHz Intel Atom CPU, a 945GSE chipset, up to 2GB of RAM, an optional 250GB OCZ SSD, 1,024 x 600 resolution LCD, VGA output, Ethernet, twin USB 2.0 ports, a 4-cell (2,200mAh) battery, WiFi and a 1.3 megapixel webcam. It'll weigh in at 2.86 pounds and come with Ubuntu or WinXP, and while we weren't thrilled with the trackpad performance, the keyboard was one of the nicest we've touched on a netbook, even nicer than the well spaced one on ASUS' Eee PC
1000HE. Check out the gallery below for more looks.
posted March 5th 2009 1:44PM
cool
To this story I say: Meh
I like OCZ's other offering though (see Z Drive)
lol is that a beck's?
yes reading the story would have told me that haha
I'm sure it's for...scale.
Yeahyeah, that's it, scale!
Is that a bottle of beer next to the front page image?
That is an empty bottle that once contained beer.
While you're wondering how many sub-atomic particles there actually are to be leveraged by the Netboo...er Sub-Notebook craze, here's a little ditty regarding the very Elements themselves.
Ladies and gentlemen, Tom Lehrer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmwlzwGMMwc
I cant rank you high enough, I love Tom Lehrer!
A barebone netbook? Sweet!
I wonder how much that SSD option will cost?
4) Take a beer.
always a beautiful thing to see companies having Ubuntu pre-installed.
The thing is, it's the boring monotony of these netbooks which is making linux acceptance so easy -- nothing to configure, no weird closed hardware, and Linux is perfect.
So this netbook might be mistaken for a cloaked romulan ship?
Shame about the crappy battery. 2200mAh?
Hey, I have that an extended battery of that range in my G1 and I'll have you know it lasts a whole day, thank you very much.
Nice, but is there a price?
5) and don't stop after one beer^^
take a long satisfying dump
He stole it und now instead of Deutschland's greatest beer we merely have fourth best behind Steinemarzen, Rottenburger, und... und...
Und Beck's?
Und Beck's? Ja und Beck's!
And Bud... light?
:-P
hahah this douche above did not get the beerfest reference
6) ???
7) PROFIT!
Did anyone else notice their display models logo fell off... I sometimes question the quality of OCZ products and that didn't help any! looks like a cheap sticker. The product specs aren't bad.... but i'm still holding out for about another year, let the bugs and technology become a little more developed. maybe if apple puts their two cents in, not that I'm a fan of macs but their product engineering is some of the best. might push other producers to start using better quality equipment.
Hmm... I was hoping that OCZ would come out with something a little more refined or better looking. This may be a little harsh, but it looks like some of their engineers whipped up the design over a weekend, added an Atom + 945 + RAM + whatever size SSD + 1024x600 LCD + everything else all netbooks have, and voila - OCZ has entered the netbook market!
It's not that I'm harping on the specs, the specs are netbook standard... but if you have essentially the same hardware as everyone else, you can differentiate your product by making it 1) cheaper, 2) different form factor, 3) more attractive, 4) somehow better/faster, 5) unique in some other way. Adding a 250GB SSD is nice, but not terribly appropriate considering the price point of netbooks,,, maybe I'm just looking for more from manufacturers these days.
/grumbling rant
Fraggle
Netbook™ is a trademark of Psion Teklogix, all rights reserved - unless Dell, Intel, and the rest of the computing world have anything to say about it :-)
I want the Beer
When is the OCZ Microwave Oven coming out? Around the same time as THX popcorn?
this is an epic C-C-C-C-C-OMBOO BREAKER!!
...wait, did that info sheet have THREE different screen sizes?(10.2,10.1, 10.0) or am I not reading it right?
I wish they would make something in a 12 inch screen. The market is saturated with 10 Inch notebooks.